Poultry Red Mite
common to poultry breeding and egg production operations, it is directly responsible for hundreds of millions of dollars in egg industry losses every year [...] through five recognized life stages: egg, larva, protonymph, deutonymph and adult. After mating, female mites lay 4–8 eggs per day over a period of three days [...] remain hidden during the day in cracks and crevices, nests, cribs and roosts, egg conveyor belts, cardboard boxes and transportation cages. They can occasionally